Re: [boost] [EXTERNAL] Request for a"PolicyReview"regarding 'CMakeLists.txt'

Subject: Re: [boost] [EXTERNAL] Request for a"PolicyReview"regarding 'CMakeLists.txt'
From: Paul Fultz II (pfultz2_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-05-20 12:43:00

> On May 20, 2016, at 11:15 AM, Peter Dimov <lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
> Paul Fultz II wrote:
> 
>> I think a better approach is to first defined a cmake module with common functionality for boost libraries(such as creating tests and packages).
> 
> Where?

Ideally, we would have a separate repo perhaps boostorg/cmake where this would reside(and can be installed using cmake).

> 
> In standalone deployments of e.g. Hana, the superproject isn't present, so this module would need to be somewhere in libs/hana. Which means that it can't be common. 

The standalone build would require the cmake module to be installed first. The superproject would include it using git submodules.